West Ham supporters have a new song for Dimitri Payet: same tune as the old one — but not quite as complimentary.

'We just don't want you any more,' is probably the key line, among the expletives and slurs about 'money-grabbing' and the way he is trying to engineer an exit this month.

The Payet situation is casting a cloud over West Ham — one only really wafted away after Andy Carroll's bicycle kick here — but this game might have provided some evidence that they can survive without him.

West Ham fans have turned on former darling Dimitri Payet after his refusal to play

Even the guards charged with stopping supporters from defacing his mural weren't impressed

Slaven Bilic was without after the France star refused to play in a bid to force a move away

Michail Antonio, Manuel Lanzini, and Sofiane Feghouli, the three men cast with the main creative responsibility in their want-a-way team-mate's absence, all played key roles to send former manager Sam Allardyce and his Crystal Palace team away with no points.

In the technical area next to Big Sam, Slaven Bilic drew in the 'Super Slav' chants that signalled just where the supporters' backing is in his dispute with Payet.

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So often, this season and last, Payet has been the man to provide the spark: the leading chance creator in the Premier League and Slaven Bilic's string-puller in chief.

Without him in the side against Crystal Palace on Saturday, Bilic was lacking men who have shown a consistent knack for unlocking defences this season. Then, they dutifully stepped up in the second half.

Slaven Bilic drew in the 'Super Slav' chants that signalled just where the supporters' backing is

Michail Antonio stepped up for his side without their wantaway star, providing three assists

PAYET'S CLUB CAREER

AS Excelsior (2004-05): 36 games, 12 goals

Nantes (2005-07): 34 games, 5 goals

Saint-Etienne (2007-11): 148 games, 25 goals

Lille (2011-13): 94 games, 19 goals

Marseille (2013-15): 83 games, 15 goals

West Ham (2015-): 60 games, 15 goals

TOTAL: 454 games, 91 goals

Ever-reliable Antonio — West Ham's second-best player of the last year after Payet — and Mark Noble combined to set up Feghouli for the breakthrough.

Lanzini then teed up Antonio to find Carroll for his wonderful bicycle kick before the Argentine playmaker burst through on to the former Nottingham Forest man's ball through for the clincher.

As he clipped the ball over Wayne Hennessey, it was just like watching you know who.

For long periods of this game the creativity an absent friend provides had been missing from the Hammers' armoury. But this win, after a slow start, will take minds off the Payet problem.

Manuel Lanzini scored and the home supporters were quick to revel in a new hero

Antonio was the key figure — three assists in one game representing 50 per cent of what Payet has provided in the Premier League this season. The England winger was in bed sick on Friday but, as club vice-chairman Lady Brady put it, 'that's dedication for you'.

The game started under the cloud of ill-feeling towards West Ham's previously much-loved Frenchman. A steward stood guard to prevent vandalism of a Payet mural outside the ground and, inside, there were the chants — followed by frustration at a lack of creativity.

West Ham were in first gear: Lanzini often anonymous and Feghouli with little end product.

But Antonio moved forward with a switch to a back four at half-time and then the goals flowed.

Bilic has relied upon Payet. West Ham are better off with him than without but this shows not all is lost whether he sticks around or not.